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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 475 CATALOGUE RAISONNE 1. A YOUNG WOMAN AT A PANTRY-DOOR WITH A CHILD. Sm. 25 ; deG. 3. In a room floored with yellow tiles stands, to the left, a young woman, wearing a red jacket and a blue skirt. She has just come from the pantry, and smilingly hands a jug to a little girl. Both figures are seen in profile. Traces of a picture painted over by the artist himself are faintly visible on the wall above the woman's head. The small window of the pantry and a cask are seen through an open door on the left. Through an open door on the right is a sitting-room ; in this room a cushioned chair, with a portrait on the wall above it, stands by the open window. "An excellent work of the master" (Sm.). Signed " P.D.H." ; canvas, 27 inches by 23 inches. A good early copy is in the possession of the Rt. Hon. Sir A. Hayter, London. Sales. P. van der Lip, in Amsterdam, June 14, 1712 (Hoet, i. 147), No. 26 (66 florins) ; the pendant sold at this sale is now in the collec- tion of Albert von Oppenheim at Cologne (6). Is. Walraven, in Amsterdam, October 14, 1765 (Terw. p. 504), No. 15 (450 florins, J. J. de Bruyn). J. J. de Bruyn, in Amsterdam, September 12, 1798, No. 25 (2600 florins, de Vos). P. de Smeth van Alphen, in Amsterdam, August i, 1810, No. 43 (3025 florins, Smit). The widow A. M. Hogguer, nee Ebeling, in Amsterdam, August 18, 1817 (4010 florins). Now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, No. 1248 in the 1903 catalogue (formerly numbered 682). 2. MOTHER WITH A CHILD AND A CHAMBERMAID. Sm. 31 and Suppl. 12 ; deG. 4. To the left, but near the centre of the picture, sits a woman, holding a little child on her lap with her left hand. She wears a blue jacket trimmed with fur and a red skirt ; at her right is a wicker cradle. Farther back, to the right of the fireplace, a chamber- maid is sweeping the tiled floor. Bright sunlight falls from the window high up on the left, and illumines the back wall, on which hangs a picture. Another picture hangs over the fireplace ; below is a chair. In the left foreground is a table with a cloth, upon which is a basket. The open door at the back shows a view of a canal with a stone bridge and a sunlit house. Signed "P. D. HOOCH " ; oak panel, 14^ inches by i6| inches. A replica is in the Stockholm Museum. Sales. P. Locquet, in Amsterdam, September 22, 1783, No. 139 (355 florins, Delfos). Jurriaans, August 28, 1817 (990 florins, De Vries). G. Schimmelpenninck, in Amsterdam, July 12, 1819, No. 40 (799 florins, De Vries). Amsterdam, May 14, 1832, No. 37 (925 florins, De Vries).